Gluten free vegan birds nest cookies
Author: handmade health
Recipe type: gluten free desserts
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Serves: 4
- 2 TBLS flax seeds
- 6 TBLS warm water
- ½ cup melted coconut oil or butter
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla
- pinch of salt
- 1 cup brown rice flour
- 1.5 cups ground or finely chopped walnuts
- 1 cup dessicated unsweetened shredded coconut
- raspberry or strawberry jam to fill cookie centers
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Grind or chop walnuts and set aside
- Put flax and warm water in cup and leave to gel about 5 minutes
- Cream butter and sugar together with a mixer and add flax mixture
- Add vanilla, flour and salt and mix with hands
- Add in walnuts until well mixed
- Roll into 2 inch balls and roll in coconut until well covered and place on cookie sheet
- Push down center of each cookie with a wet finger creating a nest
- Add a little jam to each center
- Put cookies in preheated oven and bake 12 minutes
- Remove from oven and leave to rest until cool
- These cookies are very delicate when warm and need to be completely cool before removing from the pan.
Recipe by Hand Made Health at http://handmadehealth.net/gluten-free-vegan-birds-nest-cookies/
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